The year 1985 was a great period for music, but not every radio hit survived to live on everyone's modern day playlists or flashback radio specials. For every Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" and ...

Ronald Reagan was president. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the U.S., along with the Sony Walkman. The Titanic wreckage was discovered. The ill-fated New Coke made its debut.

Forty years ago, the 1980s reached its middle period. Musicians were settled into evolving studio technology as drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers became ubiquitous. If you think of songs as ...

Here's a breakdown of the 15 hottest tours of 1985, including video whenever possible: ...

Mix engineer Daniel Duskin has just performed a new mix of A-ha’s 1985 global smash hit Take On Me on his YouTube channel and ...

The class of 1985 is now officially middle-aged. It's been four decades since Dire Straits, Phil Collins and Sting ruled the radio and record stores with multi-platinum albums like Brothers in ...

It's only fitting that we share with you the best rock songs of 1985 the way we did it back then .... with a mixtape. Well that's rad. These 31 rock and metal albums have hit the four decade mark.

These three songs are great on their own, but they were made timeless hits thanks to these three blockbuster classics.

Musically, it was a year defined by two major global fundraising events for famine relief, the Live Aid concert, as well as the release of ‘We Are the World,” sung by that ragtag group of ...